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I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.

Ben Elton

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition – and I have never suffered from it.
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Ambition Thinking Trying
I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.
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Difficult Morality Thinking
If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
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Love Memorable People
You’re mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund
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Fund Lady Old Pension
I resent the creation of a world in which beauty is a reminder of what we’re losing rather than a celebration of what we have.
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Celebration Losing World
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
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Feelings Opposite Sympathy
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
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Psychology Special Violence
My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they’ve read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
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Advice Looks Novel
I’m easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.
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Criticism Easy Inspiring
Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.
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Book Key
The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.
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Hippie Self Thinking
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
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Natural People Waiting
And of course to hunt down sedition. Only paper is safe. Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar, you have to hold it, you have to read it.
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Book Key Lecture Paper Read
My parents were secular. I am an atheist.
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Atheist Parent Secular
Kingsley watched her disappear from the room, wondering if his heart would break. Logic informed him that of course it would not. The heart was no more than a muscle, a pump which distributed blood about the body.
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Blood Heart Men
Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I’d never used it. I’m 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
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Silly Stupid Wish

I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.

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